Enter a [Second] Merchant [of Ephesus, Angelo the] goldsmith, and an Officer.

[2. E.] Mer.

You know since Pentecost the sum is due,

And since I have not much importun’d you,

Nor now I had not, but that I am bound

To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage:

Therefore make present satisfaction,

Or I’ll attach you by this officer.

Ang.

Even just the sum that I do owe to you

Is growing to me by Antipholus,

And in the instant that I met with you

He had of me a chain. At five a’clock

I shall receive the money for the same:

Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,

I will discharge my bond, and thank you too.

Enter Antipholus [of] Ephesus, Dromio [of Ephesus] from the Courtezan’s.

Off.

That labor may you save; see where he comes.

E. Ant.

While I go to the goldsmith’s house, go thou

And buy a rope’s end; that will I bestow

Among my wife and [her] confederates,

For locking me out of my doors by day.

But soft, I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone,

Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me.